Everyone is away and I’m left to man the farm on my own. Woke up to my entire herd (except one) wandering our property after pushing through the fence. They ate an entire months worth of grain (hopefully they are ok), ransacked the barn, flipped over sawdust buckets, burst into the chicken coop, burst a water pipe even ate a whole bin of chicken scratch. I fixed the fence, wrangled up every single cow on foot, repaired the fence, fixed the water pipe and cleaned up this mess. All with a 2 year old by my side. Now off to my day job.

WE are powerful!!!
What spooked them? Very unusual to knock down the board fence in the middle like that.

We’ve been having major major coyote issues lately. Maybe that. I’ve got 5 new calves on this field, so mamas have been very fast to react to any non cows in the field.

Or just rotted fencing. We get a ton of rain so wood rots deep in the ground. The post snapped right off. Can be as silly as one scratching their butt or one head butting the other into the fence. But today I put up one heck of a fight haha

Everyone is away and I’m left to man the farm on my own. Woke up to my entire herd (except one) wandering our property after pushing through the fence. They ate an entire months worth of grain (hopefully they are ok), ransacked the barn, flipped over sawdust buckets, burst into the chicken coop, burst a water pipe even ate a whole bin of chicken scratch. I fixed the fence, wrangled up every single cow on foot, repaired the fence, fixed the water pipe and cleaned up this mess. All with a 2 year old by my side. Now off to my day job.

Been there (less the 2 yo and the stilettos). Sometimes life gets really fun!

Everyone is away and I’m left to man the farm on my own. Woke up to my entire herd (except one) wandering our property after pushing through the fence. They ate an entire months worth of grain (hopefully they are ok), ransacked the barn, flipped over sawdust buckets, burst into the chicken coop, burst a water pipe even ate a whole bin of chicken scratch. I fixed the fence, wrangled up every single cow on foot, repaired the fence, fixed the water pipe and cleaned up this mess. All with a 2 year old by my side. Now off to my day job.

Been there (less the 2 yo and the stilettos). Sometimes life gets really fun!

I thought all my cows got away injury free after this crazy day. Then 2 days ago one of my new mamas with a young calf by her side suddenly couldn't walk. Leg was very swollen. Vet came and removed a nail from her foot! Must have been there 2 weeks. Treating her but shes still limping along. Hoping she comes out ok.

We talk about days like this using words like 'terrible' and 'awful'. The cows probably get all misty eyed remembering that time they had a grain party in the barn.

Haha totally. We always joke about what the cows were thinking. My one pet cow was standing at the broken down fence just starring out at all the other ransacking the place. I swear he was saying "shes going to be really upset when she sees y'all out there!"